Here on Freedom@Work a couple of weeks ago, we told you about the SEIU union boss threatening to file grievances against Boy Scouts for doing volunteer work and not paying union dues. But if you don't think this kind of despicable behavior is par for the course -- that union militants DON'T routinely put their own self interest above the public good -- here's another almost unbelievable story (emphasis added):

The American Red Cross won a court injunction today against the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 929 after its members illegally blocked vehicles from leaving the facility, interfering with blood shipments to local hospitals.

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The Red Cross says these tactics put patients at risk and required them to take legal action to stop this conduct. Doctors at area hospitals are now waiting for the safe delivery of Red Cross blood and blood products. Earlier today, the Red Cross says it had to inform union members that a two-year-old child's life depended on our blood delivery before they would allow a Red Cross vehicle to exit the yard to get the necessary blood products to the hospital.

A Michigan man appears to have been fired recently from United Way of Saginaw County because he had the audacity to challenge the special legal privileges enjoyed by union bosses.  From Reporting Michigan. 

[Tim] Kelly claims [United Way of Saginaw County CEO Cherrie] Benchley told him during a meeting that his interview had been seen on television by officials with organized labor and they they would pull their funding from the Saginaw United Way if he wasn’t let go. Kelly said that discussion was held in front of another United Way employee.

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In the interview with the local TV station,  Kelly is quoted as
saying about unions:  "I think they’ve outlived their usefulness, certainly here and across the country. … Unions used to be for the common man. Now we’ve got them set up as this special class that we no longer can afford."

Stifling dissent is standard operating procedure for the union bosses, though usually it's the employees they claim to "represent" who are fired for refusing to toe the union line. They do that using their extraordinary government-granted power to seize dues and fees from the paychecks of hardworking Americans -- one of the many special privileges union bullies rely upon to punish severely those who do nothing more than disagree with them.